DESCRIPTION

The munge_encode() function creates a credential contained in a NUL-
terminated base64 string. A payload specified by a buffer buf of
length len can be encapsulated in as well. If the MUNGE context ctx is
NULL, the default context will be used. A pointer to the resulting
credential is returned via cred; on error, it is set to NULL. The
caller is responsible for freeing the memory referenced by cred.
The munge_decode() function validates the NUL-terminated credential
cred. If the MUNGE context ctx is not NULL, it will be set to that
used to encode the credential. If buf and len are not NULL, memory
will be allocated for the encapsulated payload, buf will be set to
point to this data, and len will be set to its length. An additional
NUL character will be appended to this payload data but not included in
its length. If no payload exists, buf will be set to NULL and len will
be set to 0. For certain errors (i.e., EMUNGE_CRED_EXPIRED,
EMUNGE_CRED_REWOUND, EMUNGE_CRED_REPLAYED), payload memory will still
be allocated if necessary. The caller is responsible for freeing the
memory referenced by buf. If uid or gid is not NULL, they will be set
to the UID/GID of the process that created the credential.
The munge_strerror() function returns a descriptive text string
describing the MUNGE error number e.

RETURNVALUE

The munge_encode() and munge_decode() functions return EMUNGE_SUCCESS
on success, or a MUNGE error otherwise. If a MUNGE context was used,
it may contain a more detailed error message accessible via
munge_ctx_strerror().
The munge_strerror() function returns a pointer to a NUL-terminated
constant text string; this string should not be freed or modified by
the caller.

ERRORS

EMUNGE_SUCCESS
Success.
EMUNGE_SNAFU
Internal error.
EMUNGE_BAD_ARG
Invalid argument.
EMUNGE_BAD_LENGTH
Exceeded the maximum message length as specified by the munged
configuration.
EMUNGE_OVERFLOW
Exceeded the maximum length of a buffer.
EMUNGE_NO_MEMORY
Unable to allocate the requisite memory.
EMUNGE_SOCKET
Unable to communicate with the daemon on the domain socket.
EMUNGE_BAD_CRED
The credential does not match the specified format.
EMUNGE_BAD_VERSION
The credential contains an unsupported version number.
EMUNGE_BAD_CIPHER
The credential contains an unsupported cipher type.
EMUNGE_BAD_MAC
The credential contains an unsupported MAC type.
EMUNGE_BAD_ZIP
The credential contains an unsupported compression type.
EMUNGE_BAD_REALM
The credential contains an unrecognized security realm.
EMUNGE_CRED_INVALID
The credential is invalid. This means the credential could not
be successfully decoded. More than likely, the secret keys on
the encoding and decoding hosts do not match. Another
possibility is that the credential has been altered since it was
encoded.
EMUNGE_CRED_EXPIRED
The credential has expired. This means more than TTL seconds
have elapsed since the credential was encoded. Another
possibility is that the clocks on the encoding and decoding
hosts are out of sync.
EMUNGE_CRED_REWOUND
The credential appears to have been encoded at some point in the
future. This means the clock on the decoding host is slower
than that of the encoding host by more than the allowable clock
skew. More than likely, the clocks on the encoding and decoding
hosts are out of sync.
EMUNGE_CRED_REPLAYED
The credential has been previously decoded on this host.
EMUNGE_CRED_UNAUTHORIZED
The client is not authorized to decode the credential based upon
the effective user and/or group ID of the process.

NOTES

AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2007-2011 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
Copyright (C) 2002-2007 The Regents of the University of California.
MUNGE is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
Additionally for the MUNGE library (libmunge), you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.